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As summer rolls along, Friday Painters in Hull, a joint effort with the Hull Lifesaving Museum and Hull Artists continues our artistic adventures. We post a variety of painting locations that encourage artists to enjoy Hull’s natural beauty and diverse landscapes. Mixed in the locations are seaside, historic locations, vistas and private gardens. It is […]
As summer rolls along, Friday Painters in Hull, a joint effort with the Hull Lifesaving Museum and Hull Artists continues our artistic adventures. We post a variety of painting locations that encourage artists to enjoy Hull’s natural beauty and diverse landscapes. Mixed in the locations are seaside, historic locations, vistas and private gardens. It is […]
As summer rolls along, Friday Painters in Hull, a joint effort with the Hull Lifesaving Museum and Hull Artists continues our artistic adventures. We post a variety of painting locations that encourage artists to enjoy Hull’s natural beauty and diverse landscapes. Mixed in the locations are seaside, historic locations, vistas and private gardens. It is […]
America’s Hometown Laureates Present: 2nd Annual Plymouth Poetry Festival. You are invited to a series of poetry, prose, music and art open mics in the Plymouth community! Come and share your poetry, listen to classic Irish poems with Celtic harp, or select a piece of art to inspire a poem; we have something for everyone. […]
Historic preservationist and Civil War reenactor Joseph McGill Jr. has logged more than 200 nights sleeping in slave dwellings at historic sites in twenty-five states and the District of Columbia. In this enlightening personal account, he tells the story of his groundbreaking Slave Dwelling project. His quest to share the experience of the enslaved took […]
As summer rolls along, Friday Painters in Hull, a joint effort with the Hull Lifesaving Museum and Hull Artists continues our artistic adventures. We post a variety of painting locations that encourage artists to enjoy Hull’s natural beauty and diverse landscapes. Mixed in the locations are seaside, historic locations, vistas and private gardens. It is […]
America’s Hometown Laureates Present: 2nd Annual Plymouth Poetry Festival. You are invited to a series of poetry, prose, music and art open mics in the Plymouth community! Come and share your poetry, listen to classic Irish poems with Celtic harp, or select a piece of art to inspire a poem; we have something for everyone. […]
This breathtaking new history of the Irish immigrants who arrived in the United States during the Great Potato Famine shows how their strivings in and beyond New York exemplify the astonishing tenacity and improbable triumph of Irish America. Following an extended illustrated presentation, our award-winning guest author will be in dialogue with genealogist-moderator Melanie McComb; […]
Gain new insight on our country in the mid-19th Century and the leadership provided by one of our forgotten civil rights heroes, Charles Sumner. Following an illustrated presentation about that fraught era and “Sumner’s transformation to uncompromising and unrelenting civil rights champion, orator, and senator,” Stephen Puleo invites the audience to join in a discussion about Sumner and […]
Join the Wyner Family Jewish Heritage Center and American Inspiration for a program with professional historians and Holocaust experts Dr. Elizabeth White and Dr. Joanna Sliwa, discussing the astonishing story of Dr. Josephine Janina Mehlberg—a Jewish mathematician who saved thousands of lives in Nazi-occupied Poland by masquerading as a Polish aristocrat. Drawing on Mehlberg’s own […]
Join us for a tale of New York, Boston, worldwide travel and collecting during the Gilded Age and early 20th Century. Chasing Beauty brings to life the remarkable Isabella Stewart Gardner—creator of one of America’s most stunning museums—an American original whose life was remade and sustained by art. Author Natalie Dykstra will take us around the […]
As genealogists, we may be the only people around who can find an upside to the old adage, “in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” Afterall, if no one can escape taxes, then that makes tax records an ideal record set for family history research! In this lecture, […]
Event calendar courtesy of See Plymouth.